Rape Escape Options:
Ultimate Prevention

Ultimately, Rape Escape Options include knowing that a woman facing rape can never be sure if the rapist intends "only" to rape her without further harming or even killing her afterward. If a rapist does become violent with a submissive victim, the escalation is usually sudden and explosive.

If Posturing isn’t working, Fleeing isn't possible, and Outsmarting is falling short, you have two options left: Surrendering or Fighting (all described at Victims-Options-Overview). Dare you risk surrendering and putting yourself fully at the mercy of a criminal – or fighting? Only your Criminal-Minds-Intuition can guide you. If you do choose to fight, then attack him as described in the Fighting-Options-Overview and Rape-Escape-Options-Ultimate links above.

Ultimately, responding to any violent rapist with an eye-gouging, throat-piercing, testicle-shredding kill-or-be-killed fight for your life may well be your best chance for survival. See Stress-Control-Optimal-Mindset.

Michael Flood, a research fellow with the Australia Institute, says there is evidence that some brothers or families may share rape-supportive attitudes towards women, such as "a belief in two types of women – good girls and sluts – where you can do whatever you like with sluts". ... Flood says some people believe that women "asked or deserved to be raped if they dress in revealing ways or if they accept drugs or an offer of a lift". He says there is a belief that such women "deserve whatever comes to them", because of "a hostility towards them and contempt of women, even a view of women as whores and bitches".
Excerpted from The Sydney Morning Herald – 24 April 2004

Beware of exposing yourself to some barbaric males when certain clothes impede your running and fighting for rape escape. Or, think how you would fight in those clothes – such as kicking off your high heels to run or kick. However, that's merely the beginning of a new attitude – which requires your absolute willingness to cause severe injury to a rapist.

Taking a Bite Out of Crime - for Rape Escape

A woman walked into police headquarters holding an unusual piece of evidence: a pair of testicles she'd bitten off an attacker. She was walking on a city street when a man cornered her and demanded she perform oral sex. She placed her teeth around his testicles and when he hit her in the head, she bit them off. Her attacker was nowhere to be found until a man minus his testicles turned up at a nearby hospital. Police put two and two together (or rather, two and minus two) and arrested him for sexual assault.
Excerpted from The Chicago Sun-Times – 19 May 2001

Police said between eight and 10 men broke into the nurses' dormitory at the Mendi School of Nursing in Papua, New Guinea and as one of them attempted to rape a student nurse, she grabbed a pair of scissors and partially cut off his penis. The man was arrested when he sought treatment for his damaged genitals at Mendi hospital.
Excerpted from NineMsn (Australia) – 12 July 2001

A woman bit off a serial rapist’s tongue during a rape and he was arrested as he sought treatment at a medical center. ... The rapist, Ronald Douglas McGowan Jr., is a registered sex offender with three prior convictions. ... Police found the severed tongue at the crime scene but doctors could not re-attach it.
Excerpted from The Temecula Valley News (Fallbrook CA) – 06 June 2009

"I was awakened with a start and there was a man on top of me [serial rapist Greig Strachan]. I was flat on my back and he was flat on me. I was pinned down and my arms were by my side. 'Shut up you fucking bitch or I'll kill you,' he said as he began punching me in the face. Pushing his chest with my right hand, I punched his face wildly with my left. I thought I was going to die. No, not die - be killed. ... I had another simple thought. 'I'm going to be raped.' And then, 'I don't want to be raped.' So when he turned his attention back to my face, stroking my hair, and putting his tongue in my mouth, I bit it as hard as I could. He yelped, and lurched backwards. I saw an opening and went for his penis. I squeezed, twisted and dug my nails in and he went berserk. I can't remember being hit - all I was thinking was: 'I'm not letting go.' ... At some point he tired of hitting me or maybe the pain got too great. Anyway I saw another opening and using his penis for leverage, I hauled myself up into a sitting position and managed to head-butt him as hard as I could. He fled."
Excerpted from The Guardian Observer (UK) – 12 November 2006 by Abi Grant (author of "Words Can Describe")

Even when erect, a penis is merely soft tissue that's attached to a man's body only by weak, blood-engorged, spongy tissue, skin, nerves, and blood vessels – not by bone, cartilage, ligament, tendon, or anything at all sturdy. The same goes for the testicles and scrotum. Thus, a man's genitalia are extremely vulnerable.

A rapist's genitalia is within reach of the (unbound) victim – either from behind or in front – and many martial artists claim that it can be easily torn off his body. However, a lack of volunteers to test this theory forces it to remain part of martial arts’ lore. Yet, if you think about it, this very same lack of volunteers makes it blatantly obvious that it's far too dangerous for anyone in his right mind to try testing this theory – even a failed attempt could maim.

So it's a safe bet that a woman ferociously wrenching a rapist's genitalia like wringing out a washcloth – even one-handed – will seize absolute control of the encounter. With the utmost irony, his fragile tool of crime suddenly becomes his undoing – truly poetic justice.

Most women don’t realize just how extremely delicate testicles are – so here’s an insight:

Eyeballs and testicles are nearly identical in size, shape, and sensitivity. Think of how extremely delicate anyone’s eyeballs are – just close one of yours right now and lightly tap it – then imagine how excruciating any more force would be. The sensitivity of testicles is virtually identical. Thus, for rape escape, a victim’s primary targets should always be a rapist’s weakest body parts: his four balls – his eyeballs and testicles!

Or, if you're forced to perform fellatio, his penis or testicles can easily be bitten off. Either biting off or tearing off his genitalia will cause a rapist to suffer severe pain, blood loss, reactive shock, and panic. In all likelihood, he'll frantically scramble to get away from you – especially if you keep furiously attacking him until you suddenly flee – and the police will easily find him when he desperately seeks attention at a hospital.

If he tries to kiss you, bite into his lips until your teeth meet – chomp down as hard as possible – then vigorously shake your head side-to-side to cause maximal damage - as described in Clinch Attack. Then immediately attack him with furious Mixed Strikes to ensure your rape escape. See Fighting-Options-Strategies.

Any time a victim fights back against a rapist, they may cause each other to bleed, thus she risks exchanging her blood or other bodily fluids with his. But few rapists have HIV/AIDS (less than 1 percent of the general population does). Further, a woman biting a rapist with HIV/AIDS/STDs – or fighting back at all – has no more risk of becoming infected than if she were raped by him (again, exchanging bodily fluids).

While calmly reading this, you may feel that maiming a rapist is too gruesome an act for you for rape escape. That, of course, is your decision – though you'll likely feel very differently during an actual attack. Yet you still have a very powerful option: grabbing his genitalia with a crushing grip and holding on until you can maneuver him into a situation from which you can safely escape – as did Curtescine Lloyd in Rape-Escape-Options-Overview.

Personal Safety Devices

For convenience, learn self-defense online:

KRAV MAGA, a practical self-defense system used by many police forces worldwide, teaches you to defend yourself, enhances your survival instinct, and can be applied under extreme stress. It's not flashy, just very effective for rape escape. I highly recommend it. The Krav Maga TV - Online Training videos are especially convenient to learn at home when your schedule allows or if you don't live near a training center.

Learn all about Women's Personal Safety Tips

Also see Women-Safety-Overview and Women-Safety-Date-Rape.

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